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Comment Re:A worthless promise (Score 1) 42

Video could come out of Trump raping toddlers, he could respond by saying 'yes that's real they wanted it and were lucky to get it', and not only would he never go to prison, he wouldn't lose any support. Thinking otherwise after everything that's happened in the last 10 years is just deluding yourself.

Comment Re:5 Years Is Ridiculous! (Score 2, Insightful) 36

50 years is extreme bullshit. Copyright was originally 14y with one renewal, in a time where instant global communication didn't exist and literacy was limited. Where there was no mass production. It's insane to claim it's ridiculous to suggest anything less than almost twice that.
You clearly think the purpose of copyright is for you to get to rent seek your creation for your entire life, but that's not the purpose.
Oh and did you forget where you are or is the copyrighted code most people here write inferior to whatever the fuck you make?

Comment Re:NO (Score 1) 83

I get the stupid stuff and posted a funny example... but.. Emojis are just Unicode code points. If you're going to allow Unicode, should you arbitrarily disallow certain ranges/glyphs because they're in a list of those assigned to emojis? What if more are added... should the compiler download lists? Or should code always have to be the Latin alphabet and symbols on keyboard? I'd say allowing Unicode is fine and it's up to developers not to be jackasses with it.

Comment Like this (Score 1) 83

Behold the horror!
https://i.imgur.com/D0Uonre.jp...

Thanks to the Monaco editor (also used by VSCode) and twinBASIC, a language in development backwards compatible with VB6... that can also be used to write kernel mode drivers... I'll add some to my next driver project, see how many aneurysms I can cause with emoji-filled BASIC running in km. Abomination!

Comment Re:Your Body is Your Most Sincere Intellectual Pro (Score 1) 44

"Extreme far left"... where "far left" is anything short of the outright fascism of the US right and extreme far left is the rest of the world's moderate. Fuck off. Don't need to lie about right wing extremism to make the point there's a bunch of rich hypocrites in Hollywood.

Comment Re:For Firefox, community has always been at the h (Score 1) 33

1) You seem to think nothing can be fucked up as long as it's still better than others. That's ridiculous.
2) Even accepting a major breaking change was necessary, it was absolutely not necessary to limit functionality -- again not being worse than Google doesn't mean they didn't fuck something up.
3) Defaults matter and the time, money, and effort spent on those was clearly detrimental to the core browser.
4) But constantly shrinking the margin by which they're better has cratered their market share and created a real danger of ceasing to exist as a meaningful alternative at all.

Good luck trying to "no stupid user, shut up and accept that our choices are better and we know better than you about what you need in a browser, plus Chrome bad!" Firefox back to the top. You angling for a job at Mozilla?

Comment Gosh, wonder why (Score 1) 33

I have the feature to block malicious downloads turned off so it doesn't go sending "Metadata" off. Yesterday I had a download nonetheless blocked, in a unmistakably false positive. After confirming it was still indeed turned off in the Settings UI a search turned up that apparently that's ignored and to really turn it off you need to change some about:config setting. This kind of underhanded misleading crap is what you expect from Chrome, but nope, it was Firefox. Obviously Chrome is still much worse but it's really infuriating when the browser that markets itself as respecting privacy ignores a privacy setting.

Comment Re:TL;DR: Gotta keep the bubble going (Score 4, Informative) 129

The Commerce Clause has been interpreted so broadly that there's literally nothing that it can't apply to. Wickard and Raich held growing your own plants on your own land for exclusively your own consumption was interstate commerce because *maybe* you would have bought from another seller and that somehow maybe affects the 'overall market' which is interstate.
With that level of indirect, tenuous, theoretical possibilities based "logic" the outcome of any Commerce Clause case is decided simply by choosing the outcome desired based on politics, policy, or bribery, then working out the justification.

Comment Re:So paper does seem to be (Score 1) 48

Lucky. In the 90s-early 2000s for me, we had a computer typing class in middle school... and in highschool... a computer typing class, and an Office class you had to be a senior to take and I had too many more important classes (I was already highly proficient in it and programming VBA for years). So for me they were just games classes. Type out the days work in 5-10min then just play games. No internet, which ironically we had in every other class and the library... in 7th grade History of all places we learned HTML to make a website for a project.
I would have loved any kind of serious computer class.

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